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If President Obama hopes to rely on all the socialists who in 2008 elected him with hopes of seeing all of America's wealth get spread around, he better come up with something even more radical this year.
Something called the Freedom Socialist Party announced in December that it is running two candidates in a national write-in campaign — New Yorker Stephen Durham for president and Christina López, of Seattle, for vice president. And today the duo sent out a press release demonstrating that America's real socialists are none too pleased with Obama's first three years in office.
In a memo titled, "Recognize healthcare as a human right — make it universal and free," Durham and López refer to Obama's healthcare reform as one of the biggest disappointments of his presidency.
"Instead of stepping up to the plate and acknowledging that public healthcare is a need as great as public education," the release states, "Obama made one concession after another to the pharmaceutical and insurance mega-corporations. As he restated in his February State of the Union address, his Affordable Care Act does not give the government the role of guaranteeing universal care; instead, it relies on a reformed private market."
López goes even further, calling the healthcare program just another one of Obama's "sellouts of the human rights of women and immigrants under corporate and right-wing pressure."
Durham, according to the FSP website, says Obama and the other jokers in Washington have furthered the struggle of America's working class and poor during their bipartisan attempts at correcting the recession.
"The Democratic and Republican parties have done nothing but cooperate in forcing workers and the poor to pay the costs of the Great Recession caused by the banks and Wall Street," the site says. "President Obama may play to the crowd by criticizing 'bad apple' corporations, as he did in his State of the Union address. But the facts show that the program of corporate coddling, which creates austerity for the masses, is completely bipartisan."
Durham and López are also offended by Obama's recent compromise with religious institutions over providing birth control coverage.
Durham says the only way to provide quality health care is to get private insurers out of the picture altogether. For-profit insurance companies, according to a Baltimore-area neurologist Dr. Steven Strauss, are a fundamental problem.
"No one should be making a profit from providing — or, more to the point, denying — the medical care that should be treated as a basic human right," Strauss says, according to the release. "But insurance and drug companies are among the biggest money-makers in the nation, amassing billions each year from people's suffering."
The Freedom Socialist Party believes that a single-payer option such as Medicare, if it were to be offered to everyone, would be a reasonable first step but that all for-profit entities must be removed from the pharmaceutical, medical supply and hospitals industries.
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A conservative organization that advocates for immigration reform will begin running TV and radio commercials in Southwest Ohio next week that attempt to pressure House Speaker John Boehner (R-West Chester) to allow a vote on the "E-Verify" bill.
The group, Numbers USA, said Boehner is letting the bill languish in the House Ways and Means Committee so Republicans don't anger Latino voters in an election year. The House Judiciary Committee approved the bill last year.
The commercials include a 30-second TV ad and a one-minute radio ad.
Next to an image of Boehner, the TV spot states, "Meet House Republican Speaker John Boehner. He won't let Congress vote on E-Verify. Thanks to Speaker Boehner, illegal aliens can keep American jobs. Now Americans, meet the telephone … tell him to bring E-Verify for a vote or he may not like your vote in November."
Under the bill, the federal government's voluntary E-Verify system that is used to check the immigration status of employees would become mandatory nationwide.
Currently seven states require E-Verify checks and 12 others require state agencies and contractors to use it. The federal government has operated its system for the past 15 years.
About 300,000 of the 2.2 million U.S. employers with five or more employees were enrolled in E-Verify as of autumn 2011, according to workforce.com.
The Internet-based system checks any employee's personal information against the Social Security database and several Homeland Security databases.
If the employee is confirmed, that person is authorized to work. If the person isn't confirmed, he or she has eight working days to contest the finding with the Social Security Administration or the Department of Homeland Security.
"Speaker Boehner has supported legislation with E-Verify in the past, and the issue is currently working its way through the committee process," Michael Steel, a Boehner spokesman, told The Washington Times earlier this month.
But Numbers USA isn't convinced, and has launched the ad blitz in response.
Numbers USA said the bill would crack down on the hiring of undocumented immigrants and free up jobs that could be taken by unemployed U.S. citizens.
Critics, however, said the electronic monitoring system proposed by the E-Verify bill would be fraught with errors due to it reliance on incomplete or outdated databases. They cite the number of people who have mistakenly been placed on Homeland Security's terrorist watch list as an example.
Further, opponents believe the bill would lead to more under-the-table hiring, while some Libertarians have worried that it's a backdoor method for implementing a national I.D. card system.
The bill has caused some unlikely political alliances.
Supporters of the bill include President Barack Obama, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Opponents include the American Civil Liberties Union and several labor unions.
Based in Virginia, Numbers USA was founded in 1997 by Roy Beck, an author and ex-journalist who worked for anti-immigration activist John Tanton. Tanton also helped form two other groups, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).
Numbers USA wants to reduce U.S. immigration levels to pre-1965 levels. The group's website states, "The 1990s saw the biggest population boom in U.S. history … this population boom was almost entirely engineered by federal forced-growth policies that are still in place. The Census Bureau states that Americans will suffer this kind of rapid congestion every decade into the future unless Congress changes these policies."
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization that monitors extremist groups, has said Numbers USA, FAIR and CIS have connections to white supremacist and neo-Nazi leaders.
A 2009 report by the center states, "FAIR, CIS and Numbers USA are all part of a network of restrictionist organizations conceived and created by John Tanton, the 'puppeteer' of the nativist movement and a man with deep racist roots."
The report added, "As the first article in this report shows, Tanton has for decades been at the heart of the white nationalist scene. He has met with leading white supremacists, promoted anti-Semitic ideas, and associated closely with the leaders of a eugenicist foundation once described by a leading newspaper as a 'neo-Nazi organization.' He has made a series of racist statements about Latinos and worried that they were outbreeding whites."
In his first major case while moonlighting for Stan Chesley's law firm, Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters suffered a crushing defeat earlier this month when a jury rejected a product liability claim seeking tens of millions of dollars in damages. As a result, Deters has scuttled his plans to eventually move full-time into the private sector and instead will seek reelection as prosecutor in 2012, say Republican Party sources.
I, for one, was comforted to hear the warm Southern drawl put on by Ohio treasurer and senatorial candidate Josh Mandel while he campaigned for Mitt Romney before Beallsville coal miners on Wednesday.
As someone who recently spent six months living and
working in Montgomery, Ala., it brought me back to simpler times when
summer nights were spent drinking sweet tea spiked with rum on a porch and
it was for some reason still OK to refer to a grown black man as "boy."
So when I heard Josh Mandel extoll the virtues of coal in a drawl reminiscent of fresh butter spread on cornbread, I immediately thought, "shucks, this guy gets me — he's one of us."
Wait, what's that? Mandel hails from Lyndhurst, a Cleveland suburb that's the Hyde Park of Northern Ohio? He's never even eaten cheese grits? (Editor's note: CityBeat could not independently verify that Josh Mandel has in fact never eaten cheese grits.) Well now I just feel put on.
The Enquirer reported that Mandel had never publicly used a Southern accent before.
"As if blowing off work and hiring unqualified campaign workers and friends at taxpayer expense wasn't evidence enough of his blatant disregard for the people who elected him treasurer expecting that he'd do his job, Josh Mandel has now stooped to faking his accent as a means of earning votes," Ohio Democratic Party spokesman Andrew Zucker said in a statement. "It's sad, it's pathetic and unfortunately it's concrete proof that he is just another politician who can't be trusted."
Sounding folksy or down-homey is nothing new in presidential politics.
When campaigning in Alabama, Romney famously dropped "y'alls" into his speech and spoke of his newfound love for "cheesy grits" and catfish (my editor in Montgomery was quick to point out to me, another carpetbagger, that any real Southerner knows they're cheese grits, not cheesy grits).
If there's one thing Southerners don't take too kindly to, it's Yankee pandering.
"If you're going to pander, at least pander well, and this isn't pandering well," Stephen Gordon, a Republican consultant based in Birmingham, Ala., told the Boston Herald shortly after Romney made his remarks.
"People in the Deep South have a bit of a natural distrust for Northerners, especially folks from the Northeast," said Gordon, who is not affiliated with any campaign in the Republican presidential contest. "There are cultural differences, stemming all the way back to the Civil War, and they affect the way people perceive Mr. Romney."
Romney is by no means the first to affect an accent to fit in with the natives.
Both Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton adopted drawls while on campaign stops in the South. Though those two former presidents, from Texas and Arkansas respectively, had the bona fides to pull it off.
"The First Energy Family has contributed more than $44,000.00 into re-election campaigns for Justices Cupp and O'Donnell this year alone," O'Neill, a Democrat who is running for the Ohio Supreme Court, wrote. "It is simply wrong for them to continue sitting on First Energy cases."
The Ohio Supreme Court, which has seven justices decide
the state's top judicial cases, is currently handling a case
involving FirstEnergy, an energy company based in Akron. More than
300,000 customers are suing the company over alleged fraud. The 11th
District Court of Appeals previously ruled against FirstEnergy, and the case was appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court.
The lawsuit is the fifth Ohio Supreme Court case involving FirstEnergy this year.
O'Neill pointed out the lawsuit "could easily be a billion dollar case" before writing, "And the public has a right to know that the ruling was not purchased by one side or another."
Ohio Sen. Mike Skindell, a Democrat who is also running for the Ohio Supreme Court, endorsed O'Neill's letter. In the past, he also criticized Cupp and O'Donnell for potential conflicts of interest.
The offices of Cupp and O'Donnell did not immediately respond to CityBeat's requests for comment on the letter. This story will be updated if responses become available.
UPDATE OCT. 4, 4:12 P.M.: Mark Weaver, spokesperson for Cupp, responded: "Mr. O'Neill previously raised this argument with disciplinary authorities by filing a complaint. It was reviewed by disciplinary authorities, and they unanimously dismissed it as having no merit."
America is a country at war. While the war in Iraq ostensibly drew down in December 2011, the United States has been quagmired in a war in Afghanistan for more than a decade.
But we're also in the midst of a number of other wars — cultural wars. It started with Nixon's War on Drugs, then quickly escalated.
President Barack Obama's environmental regulations on coal mining caused proponents to claim he had declared a War on Coal. The Affordable Care Act's mandate that companies pay for employee contraception caused many faith groups to claim a War on Religion.
Statements from Republican politicians about "legitimate rape" and "binders full of women" caused some Democrats to claim the GOP had declared a War on Women.
And the ever-vigilant conspiracists news hounds at FOX News have exposed a scheme by Jesus-hating liberals to wage a War on Christmas for trying to remove constitutionally questionable dolled-up trees and pastoral scenes of babies in unsuitable barn-life cribbery faith-based displays from public property.
But by far the most heinous altercation being waged originated with Republican Ohio Senate President Tom Niehaus, who has declared a War on Babies.
As first reported by The Enquirer, conservative groups this week sent out a press release vilifying Niehaus for killing tons of babies in a mass effort to wipe out the state's youth population a 17-month old bill that would give Ohio one of the strictest abortion laws in the nation.
Niehaus moved the so-called Heartbeat Bill — which would ban all abortions after the first detectable fetal heartbeat — from the Health Committee to the Rules and Reference Committee to avoid a forced vote on the legislation. He also removed staunch anti-abortion Senators Keith Faber and Shannon Jones from that committee.
"I'm shocked by Tom Niehaus' war on pro-life women," wrote Lori Viars in the news release. Viars is the vice president of Warren County Right to Life and vice chair of Warren County Republican Party.
Viars called for Republicans to remove Niehaus from Senate leadership. Niehaus is term-limited and will not continue on in office after this year.
Niehaus blamed Romney's loss for his decision to kill the bill, saying that the Republican's victory would have increased the likelihood of a U.S. Supreme Court lineup that would uphold it against a likely challenge.
It seems Ohio may soon get a controversial voter ID law. While speaking at a Tea Party event in Cincinnati on Monday, Secretary of State Jon Husted said the General Assembly is likely to take up a voter ID law after the November election.
"I was listening to a show one night where they talked about these onerous rules, these onerous photo ID rules and the onerous rules in Ohio on photo ID," he said. "Well, the photo ID law in Ohio is not onerous. As a matter of fact, I suspect the General Assembly will take up a more strict version of what we have after what we've been through with this election process."
Later on, an audience member commented on the issue by pointing out Ohioans can currently identify themselves with 12 different types of ID. In response, Husted clarified his position: "We need to streamline that because it's really hard for a poll worker to know exactly what they're supposed to be checking. And I'm quite confident the legislature is going to take that issue up."
Under current Ohio law, voters can go to the polls with state ID cards, driver's licenses, military IDs, utility bills, paychecks, bank statements and other forms of ID. Republicans have sometimes criticized the many options, particularly for not being state-issued and not requiring a photo.
Other states have taken up voter ID laws. Pennsylvania's controversial law requires voters to have state-issued photo ID. A Pennsylvania court recently upheld the law, but the Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated the decision today and asked the lower court to reconsider. The ruling from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court gives lower courts room to strike down the law.
Democrats criticize ID laws for suppressing voters. A study from researchers at the University of Chicago and Washington University in St. Louis found nearly 700,000 young, minority voters will be unable to cast a ballot due to voter ID laws. Both young and minority voters tend to side with Democrats.
Republicans say the laws are necessary to protect elections from voter fraud. However, studies suggest in-person voter fraud is not a serious, widespread issue. A News21 report, a Carnegie-Knight investigative reporting project that looked at national public records, found 10 cases of alleged in-person voter fraud since 2000. That's less than one case a year nationwide.
The audio clips from the event, which was provided by the Ohio Democratic Party, can be heard here and here.
Husted's office could not be immediately reached for comment. This story will be updated if a comment becomes available.
UPDATE (4:25 P.M.): Matt McClellan, spokesperson for Husted, called CityBeat after this story was published.
"The Tea Party has generally been critical of the secretary's position on voter ID," he said, referring to Husted's past opposition of strict voter ID laws. "The comments he made at the event last night were environmental in general about what the secretary thought had been happening at the statehouse. His position, in general, is unchanged."
When pressed about what Husted meant when he advocated for "streamlining" laws, McClellan said Husted supported "simplification" of the current system. McClellan could not offer more details on what that means, and he said specifics would be up to the legislature to decide.
Chris Redfern, Ohio Democratic Party chairman, responded to Husted's suggestions in a statement: "As if Secretary of State Husted has not done enough to undermine access to Ohio's polls, now he's planning a secret post-Election Day assault on what forms of identification voters can present to cast a ballot. It's no surprise that after slashing voting access across the state, using his office for partisan advantage, and lying about Issue 2, now Husted is making plans to create obstacles for African Americans and seniors to vote."
Just two days before the general election, President Barack Obama made his case to 13,500 people packed into the University of Cincinnati's Fifth Third Arena and 2,000 in an overflow room.
Obama cast the race in comparisons to the previous two presidents, comparing his policies with those of Bill Clinton and equating Republican challenger Mitt Romney's plans with those of George W. Bush.
"So stay with me then," Obama said. "We've got ideas that work, and we've got ideas that don't work, so the choice should be pretty clear."
With less than 48 hours before polls open on Election Day, a Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll had Obama and his Republican challenger locked in a statistical dead heat. However the same poll showed Obama with a slight edge in Ohio, up 48 percent to Romney's 44 percent.
Obama touted his first-term accomplishments, including ending the war in Iraq; ending Don't Ask Don't Tell, the policy preventing homosexuals from serving openly in the military; and overhauling the country's health care system.
"It's not just about policy, it's about trust. Who do you trust?" the president asked, flanked by a sea of supporters waving blue "Forward" signs.
"Look, Ohio, you know me by now. You may not agree with every decision I've made, Michelle doesn't always agree with me. You may be frustrated with the pace of change … but I say what I mean and I mean what I say."
Nonpartisan political fact-checker PolitiFact on Nov. 3 took a look at Obama's record on keeping his campaign promises from 2008. The group rated 38 percent as Kept, 16 percent Compromised and 17 percent Broken.
Twice during his speech the president was interrupted by audience members shouting from the stands.
The first was a man on the balcony level of the arena interrupted, shouting anti-abortion slogans and waving a sign showing mutilated fetuses before being dragged out by about five law enforcement officers. Both were drowned out by supporters.
Music legend Stevie Wonder opened the rally for Obama, playing a number of his hits, opening up "Superstition" with a refrain of "on the right track, can't go back."
Wonder discussed abortion policy between songs and urged Ohioans who had not already voted to do so either early on Monday or Election Day.
So far, 28 percent of Ohio voters have already cast their ballots. CNN reports that those votes favor Obama 63/35, according to public polling.
Meanwhile on Sunday, Romney campaigned before an estimated crowd of 25,000 in Pennsylvania, according to the Secret Service.
Political rallies always draw a number of the loyal opposition, and this late-evening appearance was no different. Only five people protested near the line to the arena, but what they lacked in number they attempted to make up for in message.
One large sign read "Obama: 666" and another "Obama is the Beast," alluding to a character in the Christian Biblical book of Revelation.
A man who only identified himself as Brooks carried a large anti-abortion sign that showed pieces of a dismembered fetus.
"I'm here to stand up for the innocent blood that has been shed in this land to the tune of 56 million," Brooks said. He said he was opposed to the politics of both major party presidential candidates.
"I pray for Barack Obama because his beliefs are of the Antichrist, just like Romney," Brooks said.
Brooks said his message for those in line was for them to vote for Jesus — not on the ballot, but through their actions and through candidates that espoused Christian beliefs.
"Obama is not going to change things, Romney is not going to change things," Brooks said. "In the last days there are many Christs, but not the Christ of the Bible. The Christ of the Bible is not for killing children, is not for homosexual marriage."


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The big data employment boomSeptember 4, 2013: 5:00 AM ET
Big data jobs aren't just for engineers and IT departments -- analysts could come from just about anywhere.
By Clay Dillow
FORTUNE -- Big data has been favorably cast as "the new oil" and held up as the economic counterweight to America's sinking manufacturing sector. And while the "data is the new oil" analogy isn't perfect or even necessarily sound (data is both abundant and renewable, after all), there's some merit to the metaphor. As oil did at the beginning of the last century, big data is going to drive economies in the century ahead. But it may not do so in the way that many people think it will.
As with oil, companies know data is out there in large quantities and that it's not enough to simply know where it is -- it has to be extracted, refined, and delivered in a usable format to be valuable. And like the energy economy before it, the data economy needs dedicated people -- 4.4 million of them by 2015 in the IT field alone, according to an oft-cited Gartner Research analysis.
But here the similarities end. The oil patch has never had much trouble finding and training enough roughnecks to get oil out of the ground, but training up skilled big data professionals is a different enterprise entirely. In the U.S. alone, a McKinsey & Company report projects a shortfall of between 140,000 and 190,000 "deep analytical" big data professionals by 2018 -- that is, people with highly technical skills in machine learning, statistics, and/or computer science, the actual hands-on big data people that know how to crunch huge data sets into meaningful information.
But what's often overlooked in this dim projection of the big data labor market is that the impact of big data on employment goes far deeper than the deep analytics and IT fields. Companies need professionals at all levels that are not necessarily schooled in deep analytics but are nonetheless big data-savvy. These professionals don't need degrees in computer science or statistics.
MORE: The myth of America's missing software engineers
A VP at management consulting and technology advisory outfit Booz Allen Hamilton recently told InformationWeek that the company has had great success bringing physicists and music majors onto data science teams -- creative thinkers who know less about computer science and more about how to look at big data problems in a different way. Though companies and economies will certainly need data scientists to manage their massive databases and information technology teams to support them, to a far greater degree they'll need professionals knowledgeable and creative enough to leverage big data to the greatest possible advantage.
"Advances in software, in interface design, and things like that will make it easier to analyze big data in the future," says Dr. Betsy Page Sigman, a professor at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business and an expert on technology and information systems. "So it won't be as big of a technological hurdle. The more important thing for companies will be to have a lot of people that understand not just how to produce statistics and analytics, but understand how to make better decisions because they have this information."
Any employment bump tied to the proliferation of big data analytics won't be confined to IT departments or even to dedicated "data divisions" that emerge within companies. And it isn't just big data specialists like data scientists and statisticians that stand to benefit from this boom. Big data opportunities are already being exploited in data-centered pursuits like risk management, marketing, and research science, but the applications are virtually limitless.
Academically, big data is playing a role in decidedly non-data disciplines, like some portions of the social sciences and humanities, says Jim Spohrer, computer scientist and director of IBM's Global University Relations Programs. It will increasingly become integral in medical research, various kinds of product development and modeling, and all types of research science. To remain competitive, companies will require professionals at all levels that fundamentally grasp big data concepts and and know how to use them to their advantage.
"What we're seeing now is the tip of the iceberg," Spohrer says. "You think of all the different jobs that exist today. How is all the data associated with each person's job going to change the job and the skills they need?"
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Part of this shift will simply require the retooling of existing jobs, but there is also a new class of positions and skills emerging as well, Spohrer says, positions like "chief data officer" that will become more common within existing companies large and small. These jobs won't necessarily be occupied by deep analytics-types either, but by non-data professionals educated and experienced in their chosen industry while also skilled in the use of big data tools (which, as Sigman noted above, will only become easier for non-data professionals to use).
Existing companies will expand as they deploy more big data resources -- both human and technological -- to leverage big data to their advantage. But the space to watch isn't necessarily existing companies reorganizing to embrace big data, but the emerging big data industry where deep analytical job growth is likely to make its biggest economic impacts.
As with so many other specialized endeavors that fall outside the purview of core business -- things like advertising and marketing, the latter of which is itself being completely transformed by big data analytics -- many big data applications will be farmed out to outside contractors who specialize in big data analysis and problem solving, Sigman says. Scores of big data startups are already emerging (largely with the help of venture capital) to meet this demand, including MapR, ParStream, ScaleArc, and Cloudant. The ones who are able to best meet their customers' data analytics needs are poised to become home to many of those many millions jobs big data will generate over the next few years.


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Everyone loves live music in the summer! From the Summer Concert Series, to Music in the Grotto, Tahoe Donner's events will have you singing and dancing all summer long!
2012 Summer Concert Series at Northwoods Clubhouse
The Tahoe Donner Summer Concert Series is free for members, guests, and the public. Stop by Northwoods Clubhouse to enjoy the bounce house, face painting and fun carnival snacks like popcorn, cotton candy and snow cones. Bring your own blanket and picnic, or order dinner from Pizza on the Hill.
July 7, 6 – 9 p.m. – Just Us
August 11, 5 – 8 p.m. – Rebekah Chase Band
September 1, 5 – 8 p.m. – Jason Wooley Band
Wednesday Night Music in the Grotto
The Lodge Restaurant & Pub is popular spot to enjoy a meal or indulge in a refreshing cold beverage as the temperature heats up. On Wednesday evenings in July and August, guests have the pleasure of listening to local performers in the lovely grotto just outside the Lodge Restaurant & Pub. Music is free.
August Music in the Grotto Schedule
August 8, 6 – 8:30 p.m. - James Murtagh
August 15, 6 – 8:30 p.m. - John Hamilton
August 22, 6 – 8:30 p.m. - TBD
August 29, 6 – 8:30 p.m. - Emily Tessmer


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Patrick Wiercioch has really made strides these past few weeks. The Sens were forced to lean on him thanks to the Karlsson injury, and Wiercioch has been up to the task. Three assists and plus-3 last night give him 10 points in 13 games.
I've been meaning to mention in the ramblings - click on a name that is highlighted. We just added the fantasy newsfeed to the player's profile. So now when you click the player, not only do you see line combos, trends, line production and other fun stuff - but you also see the last few news items relating to that player. It's something I've been meaning to have added for awhile now, but Jason Arbuthnot has been slammed with his day job and hadn't been able to implement until now. We have more plans for the Frozen Pool section and player profiles that we'll start phasing in, including expanding the free area and hopefully bringing the price down even further for the pay area.
If you have a few minutes to help out with the newsfeed each week, I'd like to double up the coverage. It's real easy, if you have a good system you could put up six or seven links in less than 10 minutes. Hell, if I had someone who would just go through my ramblings every day and for each player I mention a streak about, such as Wiercioch above, he or she adds his name and a link to my ramblings mentioning the streak - that alone would really help. Please let me know!
Here's another streak - Jiri Tlusty has just one point in his last five games. Tlusty is a buy low guy right now, because his owners will be panicky - after all, he's not proven, right? But he'll find the magic again, I believe in him as a 65-point player and I'm convinced he'll get the chance to succeed. These little slumps will no longer see him get demoted to a checking line.
The Leafs have sent down Korbinian Holzer and have recalled Jake Gardiner. He has 31 points in 43 games for the Marlies this season - and yes, he'll make an impact quickly.
Martin Brodeur was on the bench last night as a backup. He'll probably get his start next game.
Jakob Silfverberg has five points and 20 shots on goal in his last six games.
Since returning to the lineup, hard-luck forward Guillaume Latendresse has five points in five games.
I had given up on Shawn Matthias, wrongfully recommending to someone that they drop him - this was in early March. Since then he has seven points in 10 games, with six of them goals. I feel a bit guilty because he had a choice of players to drop and needs all the help he can get. And I honestly felt that Matthias was the one with the least hope. Meanwhile, how often do I preach that big giants like that take until they're 27 years old before you give up on them?
From the pages of Jumping the Gun - is the Ville Leino we saw in the 2010 postseason, back? Three points in three games since returning to the lineup. Worth keeping an eye on. He was so horrible last season that most people are afraid to touch him with a 10-foot pole.
Evgeni Malkin is expected back within the next two games. I'm so impressed that Beau Bennett has managed to continue producing even without Gino. Not huge, but some. Three points in five games. James Neal, meanwhile, is pointless in four.
Blake Wheeler has seven points in five games and he's fixing his plus/minus as well. He's up to a minus-5 now on the year and hasn't been in the red for nine games.
Taylor Beck played his first career NHL game for the Preds - he has 41 points in 50 AHL games, but was pointless with two shots last night. He played 14:49.
Remember that clip I had in yesterday's ramblings about the AHL fight at (and in) the benches? The AHL suspended four players for that, including Jeremy Morin (one game). Just to give you some closure on that, I know you had trouble sleeping.
Andy McDonald had five shots and played 19:24 in his return to the St. Louis lineup.
Brooks Laich made his season debut for the Caps, seeing nearly 13 minutes of ice time and dishing out three hits. He played with Ribeiro and Brouwer and moved Wojtek Wolski to the press box.
The other debut for Adam Oates - Dmitry Orlov. I don't get the sense that Orlov will give fantasy value this season, given the 12 minutes of ice time. Then again, it's just one game and he was practically an NHLer last year.
The Red Wings are close to signing 6-5 free agent goalie Jared Coreau from out of Northern Michigan. Given their top two goalies - a Band-Aid Boy in Gustavsson and an "almost" Band-Aid Boy in Jimmy Howard… in deep deep keeper leagues I'd be looking at this guy, to sit on for a couple of years.
The name of the game this year, in terms of free agents coming out of college, is "defensemen". All the buzz is about the D available - Danny Dekeyser is the most notable one, but Andrej Sustr is also generating a lot of interest. But that's because he's 6-8! Neither player is looking at big points, but the Red Wings are said to be close to signing Dekeyser.
Power-plays are dropping as the season goes on. Here is the data. Less power plays mean less goals. We hate hearing/reading that here at DobberHockey.
Ryan Malone is out indefinitely (again) with a shoulder injury. So the great numbers we're seeing from the kids will continue.
It's a good thing the Rangers won. Had they lost, Rick Nash would have been on a team with 30 points - whether he was traded in the summer or not. That's right, Columbus is two points behind New York.
Here's something to keep an eye on - the Flyers have signed forward Kyle Flanagan to a one-year contract for next season, per Bob McKenzie. It's an NHL deal, not sure if that means it's one-way. Flanagan is a small (5-9), skilled player and I'd like to see how he performs for Adirondack this weekend. College players adapt to the pro game differently. He was ninth in NCAA scoring with 47 points in 35 games.
Interesting stuff by Puck Daddy here regarding the Perry and Getzlaf contracts. As UFA's, they could only sign seven-year deals. But they get eight if they "re-sign". Furthermore, the no-trade clause kicks in immediately - they don't have to wait until the summer for it to kick in (like Jeff Carter had to with the Flyers - and was then traded just before it kicked in). Anyway, interesting points.
After being shut out three games in a row - Phoenix finally scored in the third period of last night's game. Then they scored again - both by Shane Doan. Anyway, the monkey is off their backs and I would expect owners of Coyote players to see a little surge. Radim Vrbata returned to the lineup, but was held pointless.
Thanks to Shoeless for pointing this out - Doan had two goals, 11 shots and 13 hits. Think he had enough of being shut out? Now that was an angry player.
This is a great fight - Chris Stewart vs. Zack Kassian. On a side note, do the commentators know that they're allowed so shut up? We don't need play-by-play on fights:
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Hagen Sets Two School Marks at Butler Twilight Meet
Saturday, May 01, 2004Valparaiso University's Holly Hagen (Hobart,Ind./Hobart H.S.) set a pair of school records on Friday and Saturday as the Crusaders competed in the Butler Twilight Invitational held in Indianapolis.
The junior set the school mark in the shot put on Friday evening with her heave of 42'9 �" to earn third place in the field of 26 competitors. On Saturday, she bettered her own school record in the hammer throw with a toss of 155'2", earning a runner-up finish.
Elsewhere on the infield, Jessica Cherrington (Roseburg, Ore./Umpqua Valley Christian H.S.) placed fourth in the javelin with a throw of 115'9", while Amanda Meyer (Somerset, Wis./Somerset H.S.) finished in a tie for seventh in the pole vault clearing 9'6 �".
On the oval, Amanda Lee (South Lyon, Mich./South Lyon H.S.) finished seventh in the 3,000m steeplechase crossing the finish line in a time of 11:24.92. Rachel Nelson (Lee's Summit, Mo./Lee's Summit H.S.) turned in Valpo's other top-ten finish of the meet, placing eighth in the 800m with a time of 2:15.58.
In the sprints, Laura Arloszynski (Greenfield, Wis./Greenfield H.S.) finished in a tie for 11th in the 100m dash, crossing the line in 12.93 seconds.
Valpo will take a week off for final exams before returning to action May 13-15 for the Mid-Continent Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships to be held in Cedar City, Utah.
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#12-36: The Sublime is Now?
Chto Delat? Poster Timeline
Here we collected a series of (mostly) retrospectively made posters which reflect different aspect of our activity with a focus on less visible parts of it.
Chto Delat? / What is to be Done?
The collective Chto Delat (What is to be done?) was founded in early 2003 in Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod with the goal of merging political theory, art, and activism.
The group was constituted in May 2003 in St. Petersburg in an action called "The Refoundation of Petersburg." Shortly afterwards, the original, as yet nameless core group began publishing an international newspaper called Chto Delat?. The name of the group derives from a novel by the Russian 19th century writer Nikolai Chernyshevsky, and immediately brings to mind the first socialist worker's self-organizations in Russia, which Lenin actualized in his own publication, "What is to be done?" (1902). Chto Delat? sees itself as a self-organized platform for a variety of cultural activities intent on politicizing "knowledge production" through redefinitions of an engaged autonomy for cultural practice today.
The array of activities is coordinated by a core group including following members:
Tsaplya Olga Egorova (artist, Petersburg), Artiom Magun (philosopher, Petersburg), Nikolay Oleynikov (artist, Moscow), Natalia Pershina/Glucklya (artist, Petersburg), Alexey Penzin (philosopher, Moscow), David Riff (art critic, Moscow), Alexander Skidan (poet, critic, Petersburg), Oxana Timofeeva (philosopher, Moscow), and Dmitry Vilensky (artist, Petersburg). In 2012 the choreographer Nina Gasteva has joined a collective after few years of intense collaboration. Since then many Russian and international artist and researchers has participated in different projects realized under the collective name Chto Delat? (see descriptions of each projects on this web site)
Chto Delat withdraws from Manifesta 10
In solidarity with the Peace March in Moscow today Chto Delat announces its decision to withdraw from Manifesta 10
On March 11th, Manifesta Foundation responded to recent calls for boycotts, cancelation and postponement of Manifesta 10, planned to open at the State Hermitage Museum in early summer.
In this long-awaited statement, the foundation announced that it will not cancel under the present circumstances. Also, presumably responding to calls for the exhibition's radicalization, curator Kasper König reaffirmed his commitment to a group show demonstrating the broadest possible spectrum of art's possibilities, emphasizing that his contract allows artistic freedom – within the limits of the Russian law – and that he will (try) to keep the show free of censorship. But at the same time, he also restated his dislike for "cheap provocations" in topical political references, warning that Manifesta 10 at Hermitage could be "misused by political actors as a platform for their own self-righteous representation," and insisting that "it is [his] hope to present far more than just commentary on the present political circumstances." (http://manifesta.org/2014/03/
Anti-anticommunism, a play in space – project at Tranzit Display, Prague
Chto Delat
Dmitry Vilensky
Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Nikolay Oleynikov,
Dmitry Vilensky, Gluklya Natalya Pershina
Martina Malinová
(song Who thus spoke of solitude? -
the fragment from a text by ALAIN BADIOU "Of an Obscure Disaster")
The play consists of 5 elements
1. The film program (run in loop) compiled of two films which directly confront the history of the communist ideas and its realization: The Partisan Songspiel: A Belgrade Story (2009) and The Baden-Baden Lessons of Dis-consent (2011) (Both directed by Tsaplya Olga Egorova). Both films are staged reconstructions of situations in which the ghost from the past appears completely out-of joint and at a wrong moment and place.
2. Installation Anti-anticommunism specially created for the space of Transit display and which will be a poetic metaphor on the topic (realized by Nikolay Oleynikov and Dmitry Vilensky).
3. The recording of a fragment of the Alen Badiou article "Of an Obscure Disaster. On the End of the Truth of State" which will be a sound track in the installation and played by Martina Malinová.
4. The newspaper publication where we publish a few texts reflecting the current state of the discussion on the idea of communism.
5. Open discussions on the topic of the show.
the publication with the concept of the show and related texts:


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1. LAV Filters work better than ffdshow. Quality is same or better.
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K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 10.3.5
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No doubt it's the best video player/codec pack available on www. I use it since 2007; started with older codec pack, different name but similar to this, then K-lite codec 2.88 then version 3... time passed and now voila, 10.3.5 :)
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2. LAV splitter - yes, this is really good, Haali splitter had&still have lots of issues, especially on mpeg-2 playback. But: when the direct vobsub is active (subtitles), 25i fps videos have interlaced effects(the video becomes a bunch of horizontal lines, not watchable at all). With nero splitter - no problems at all. And yes, the de-interlace sett. I use is 'bob'-which plays real 25i fps. Is's a lav splitter issue. The reason I don't use nero is because of the interface. In lav is easier to change audio/subtitles streams. Hope they will get this fixed.
3. mpc-hc DXVA decoder - working fine, no problems on Win7. On XP, there's a horizontal black line (of maybe 20 pixles) on the very bottom of the screen. Not big issue though; at the same time I realize that most apps made today are tested on modern sistems: win7, 8... and less testing on sp3 xp.
Now, maybe some people will be telling me something like :"it's just you, you didn't adjust the correct video renderer, the x setting or the y setting". This may not be the case, it's been a while since I'm playing around with different playback settings & stuff, on both old & new computers ;)
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 10.3.5
on 10 March 2014, reviewed by: Donna
The time scale changes if you click on the time indicator.
Bookmarks was fixed in latest MP-HC.
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 10.3.5
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The video timescale is given in reverse order. that means instead of give shown time it shows the pending time by default.
Moreover some videos are not playing smoothly like earlier.
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 10.3
on 26 February 2014, reviewed by: AYan
There is a problem in disabling media foundation for MP4. it screws the FPS of the movie and it starts running in fast forward mode.
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 10.2
on 11 January 2014, reviewed by: Skypilot
This version does not handle the bookmarks correctly for a DVD file with Video_Ts folder.
At least not on my configuration. Worked fine in 10.0.5.
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 10.2
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Video stops playing in the middle, the graphic simply freeze or doing some weird loops but the sound continue to play.
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 10.2
on 28 December 2013, reviewed by: Chocobar
Does this one has virus as reported by Vincent ??
Anybody noticed anything strange after installation like their anti-viruses are disabled or infections detected by their antiviruses ??
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 10.1.5
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Best version so far is version 6.1 and newer 8.7. All version after those old version has quite a bugs.
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 10
on 21 August 2013, reviewed by: Vincent
During installation the DivX installer showed up, witch was strange since the reason to use this codec pack is to avoid installing the crapware so I canceled it. Later windows notify me that security center was disabled and security essential as well.
Later installed AVG and discovered that regular program files were infected.
Vincent you are right is this pack had the dmw.exe virus and the data.js virus that logs and transfer data from you PC while disabling antivirus software.
on 25 Jan 2014, by Mj
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 9.7.5
on 07 February 2013, reviewed by: malchick99
It is necessary to ensure all files are being opened and played properly when installing K-Lite.
Last time after installing 9.7.x, all files except transport stream files can play in MPCHC. Attempting to open a TS file will result in MPCHC error (even after switching splitters). Had to reinstall an older version (9.3.0) in the end to get the TS file playback working, but then weird RMVB playback issues occur (symptoms occur after repeated search, cue/review).
Definitely more debugging efforts are needed when releasing K-Lite updates.
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 9.7.5
on 07 February 2013, reviewed by: Poulpos
Excellent codec pack, has been my choice for more than 5 years, and I only had twice since that time to use VLC for a problem of subtitles handling on 2 rmvb movies. Except those very very rares exceptions, it has never failed, and MPC is a kick-ass player !!
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Keep on the good work (and please get back G-Spot :P)
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 9.7
on 15 January 2013, reviewed by: Eric
For some reason, when I install the Codec pack, it says that some registries are missing, so no codecs get installed. Is there a way to fix this?
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 8.9.0
on 15 June 2012, reviewed by: Danny
Read the K-Lite FAQ and you will find a solution.
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 8.9.0
on 14 June 2012, reviewed by: sprinter
LAV filter causing no sound when try fast forwarding rmvb movies
Audio: AAC 44100Hz stereo
Video: RealVideo 4 848x480
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 8.6.0
on 27 March 2012, reviewed by: Danny
Report your problem on the forum of the developers. They should be able to help you.
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 8.6.0
on 26 March 2012, reviewed by: Junaid Ahmaed Shawon
The Lav spilter of K-lite codec pack cause problem when viewing photos in win vista/7("com surrogate has stopped working")and make windows photo viewer crash after viewing every 3-4 photos. And when playing a file with mpc it stops responding about 3-4 seconds before playing it.
A really large number of people are facing these problems, please solve them!
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 8.4.0
on 16 March 2012, reviewed by: Greg
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You can avoid crash by disabling thumbnail generation.
The developers can only fix crashes if you send them a link to a crashing file.
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 8.4.0
on 16 March 2012, reviewed by: Abbas Hussain
k-lite Codec Pack has problem with Falsh Vedio Files. Many of times when you download FLV files after installing K-Lite Codec Pack. They Crashed and Windows Explorer restart.
Also Crashes AVI files and Processing go up to 100%.
So developers should need to remove this bug..............
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 8.4.0
on 03 March 2012, reviewed by: Kabir
K-Lite Codec Pack 8.1.0
To fix crashes while playing certain formats, untick "Use of DXVA hardware acceleration" in Codec Tweak Tool=>Various Tweaks.
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 8.4.0
on 01 March 2012, reviewed by: Diego
Thi version K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 8.4.0 not open "matroska and mp4"
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 8.4.0
on 23 February 2012, reviewed by: Patty
From version 8.30, if you play any video file with extensions: mkv, ts, avi, wmv... they all crash.
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 8.3.2
on 14 February 2012, reviewed by: Aditi jain
this version crashes my pc when playing avi files.
No FAQ did not help.
Disabling ffdshow.ax filter helped but then i couldn't play some of the other files.
trying 6.2
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 8.1.7
on 16 January 2012, reviewed by: Andy
MPC-HC is 99% identical to the old MPC. If you are having problems with MPC-HC you should report them in detail. Without specifics they can't fix it. If you don't report details, you will not be taking seriously and they may remove the old MPC.
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 8.1.7
on 16 January 2012, reviewed by: Misha
Don't EVER, EVER, EVER think about discontinuing MPC. Media Player Homecinema is, in my opinion, total garbage and doesn't work well. And it's very user-unfriendly.
MPC is without a doubt, the best Media player that is available for any version of Windows.
The few programs that are better than this are only available through Linux.
So-- please reconsider your decision to discontinue MPC. I'm sure I'm not the only user that will thank you for it.
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 8.1.0
on 05 January 2012, reviewed by: Stewie
You have accidentally enabled D3D FullScreen. You can disable it in Options>Playback>Output.
Change the video renderer in MPC settings, or update your graphics driver.
Upside down video is because of bad graphics driver
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 8.1.0
on 04 January 2012, reviewed by: GLowingStar
MPC-HC-184.108.40.20604 is virtually useless. When double clicking a file, it goes fullscreen although option is not set to start in fullscreen.
Then, you can't escape the fullscreen mode and there is no way to leave (even ctrl-alt-del doesn't work).
Didn't have this issue with any previous installation of K-Lite Mega Codec Pack. Win7 32-bit.
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 8.0.0
on 25 December 2011, reviewed by: Cupid
Installed the latest K-lite codec Mega pack on my PC using Win-Vista 32Bit. Kindly never discontinue MPC-Regular, because MPC-HC-18.104.22.16804 or MP-HC-1.2 won't open instantly when a video file is opened, there is a time delay of 15 Sec's every time a video file is opened avi or mp4. And it opens instantly on MPC-Regular.
Please find a solution for this issue then please think of discontinuing MPC-Regular.
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 8.0.0
on 13 December 2011, reviewed by: Tobias
V.8.0 have some big improvements, but unfortunately the WM7 render flips and mirrors the whole picture making it useless. The ofter renderers seems to work nicely but om slow computers WM7 is the only usable since it uses much less resources.
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 7.9.0
on 02 November 2011, reviewed by: Joao Paulo
k-lite mega codec pack 7.9.0 will not play radio real player format.
I have same problem.
on 08 Nov 2011, by rob
what you mean? it cannot play rmvb?
on 13 Nov 2011, by ANDREW
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 7.8.4
on 25 October 2011, reviewed by: delacroix01
Very nice as always, but please don't remove MPC Regular edition in the future version. I don't like Home Cinema because it doesn't have the DSM converter that Regular has. It's a great tool to extract things from mkv files.
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 7.7.0
on 12 September 2011, reviewed by: zamy
very good for v7.7.0
can play well 10 bit encoding Hi10p
just remove LAV splitter or change to haali for source filter
cannot play for some mpegts, ts, tp file.. but after change to haali splitter can play..
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 7.6.0
on 28 August 2011, reviewed by: Anshuman
One more thing....no matter what I do, I can get explorer to extract thumbnail out of mkv files
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 7.6.0
on 28 August 2011, reviewed by: Anshuman
Excellent as usual...few suggestions though:
* Some *easy* configuration setting to make ffdshow default audio decoder in Win 7 for everything (incl. Windows Media Player).
* Please keep GSpot in pack.
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 7.5.0
on 05 August 2011, reviewed by: ultravy
K lite is working fine every time i instaled a new version.you have to run a reg cleaner, your reg extension is mess up
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 7.5.0
on 25 July 2011, reviewed by: UNAP
7.5.0 It's working Great! but not support 10-bit h264 yet.
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 7.5.0
on 24 July 2011, reviewed by: SAILOR
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 184.108.40.206 is the best but the new verison have problems in some avi & rm files.But it still first best Codec in the world.
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 7.2.0
on 19 July 2011, reviewed by: mediafan
Awesome codec pack. With this you won't need any other to play your media files and with a player supporting ffdshow and external codecs you will enjoy seamless playback for hours without a single playback error or missing codec.
I have used K-lite for years along with recently deceased KM Player (I know theres a new chinese site for it but the sound quality is horrible now) and now Im with GOM player.
I knocked off 1 star because recent K-lite 7.2 Mega Codec Pack did something and now all my media can't be associated to any player (not just GOM) I suspect its registry problem as when I uninstalled previous version of codec pack it detected broken/missing codecs.
Same old procedure uninstall previous version of K-lite, restart, install new version, restart never had any problems doing that before.
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 7.2.0
on 02 July 2011, reviewed by: Ritm
Generally, troubled by even with necessary filters installed in VirtualDub, impossible to open .mkv and some other types which needed some manual tweaking and/or other filter add-ons. "Excellent" - it is universal and stable.
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 7.2.0
on 27 June 2011, reviewed by: Mishu
Yeeeeah, now the internal DXVA H.264 decoder of Media Player Classic is workin' on Win7! So great :)
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Q: Why do scientists believe there could have been global flooding on Mars, yet deny the possibility of it happening here on Earth?
A: First, the Bible doesn't say anything about a massive flood on Mars. But to admit that there was a global flood here on the Earth would be admitting that the Bible's true and that there really is a Creator of all of us.
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"Why has it taken 100 years to learn that one of the largest of all dinosaurs Apatosaurus (Brontosaurus of the school book) has been wearing the wrong head? That seems rather basic. How did this mix-up occur; and where has the old fellow's head been all of this time? The answer to the last question is, of course, that its true head has been in the museum's research collection for all these many years, patiently waiting for research to catch up to reality."
– Taken from the display notebook at Dinosaur National Park Museum, Vernal, Utah.
Many scientists who look at the features on Mars believe that the canals, valleys and many of the mountains were formed by something like a global flood. Only, they have never been able to detect any liquid water on Mars!
Those same scientists see features here on Earth, with all of the geological evidence and the abundant water supply covering 70 percent of the Earth's surface, but they adamantly reject the possibility of a global flood happening here!
2 Peter 3:5–6 states, "For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the Earth standing out of the water and in the water: whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished."
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Hi everyone,
What are some tips you have for beginning an online class as an instructor?
I'm sure there is certainly a good deal of flexibility in how to facilitate Online classes. But what are some best practices?
Hopefully, the outcome of this discussion regarding these tips will be proven best practices and give you some ideas about ways you can make the
first few days of your future Online course go as smoothly as possible.
Welcome Message
When you first receive access to your class forums as an instructor (usually the day before the class begins), send a welcome message to the Main forum. It's important to send at least one message to the Main forum before the course starts because that is where students will probably look first.
Hi John,
I have taken a few online courses in the past and have found that the instructors who make a point of using a participant's name in their responses to the discussions make the online experience most enjoyable and personal for all of the participants. It is also nice for the instructor to ask each participant to write a general welcome message
to the other participants in the course. The beauty of an online course is that you can connect with teachers in the school next to you or with teachers thousands of miles away. The personal touch, however, makes for better communication and a feeling of connnectedness that can be lacking in an online course.
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Linda Gallagher wrote: I have taken a few online courses in the past and have found that the instructors who make a point of using a participant's name in their responses to the discussions make the online experience most enjoyable and personal for all of the participants.
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Linda Gallagher Wrote:. It is also nice for the instructor to ask each participant to write a general welcome message.
Hi, John,
I've been teaching online for about a year. At first, I was very concerned about responding to my students instantaneously when they posted an assignment or in a discussion. Gradually, I learned that I was considering the ideas my students were sharing during the day - driving, doing housework, etc., almost as if I were multi-tasking. I found that giving myself a little extra time to think about my students' posts, and my responses, integrated my students into my life - in the "asynchronous" way that online teaching suggests. Hope this helps, and good luck with your course!
Another tip to add to the list is:
Remember to outline what are the course and participant expectations. All participants should know from the very beginning of the course where to submit their assignments, when their assignments are due and when they will receive feedback on their coursework!
Would love to see more people add additional tips to this list as well!
Practical Tip for Online teaching.
Having had the opportunity to teach a few Online courses, I have discovered that re-enforcement of the expectations throughout the course elicits more precise and timely responses to the assignments. Additionally, using first names is a touch of bonding that has proven to be a nice touch, but also having a special place where more personal thoughts, pictures, and/or issues can be uploaded makes the Online class actually come alive. Online will never replace the face-to-face instruction, but if the facilitator sets the dialogue tone in the first encounter, the "connections" between facilitator and student can be a very positive experience for both.
Hi John,
Something I have done that I have found helpful is create a folder for all of my group emails. Whenever I send an email out to the class, I also post a copy inside this folder in the course so that if anyone happens to have problems with email filters, or just losing an email they can refer to it in the course itself.
I also send out "mid-week/session" reminders of what is due by the end of the week/session.
Keep all email short and to the point. Folks don't always take the time to read lengthy emails that contain lots of detail.
Hope this helps.
I think developing a strong sense of Community where participants feel safe and comfortable sharing information about themselves and the course content is a critical part of facilitating an online course. The facilitator should serve as the role model in leading the participants to engage in ongoing, in-depth discussions to share opinions, personal experiences, and resources in a timely manner.
The Orientation session provides an opportunity for participants to "meet and greet." Sharing fun facts, pictures, educational backgrounds, and career paths helps participants build a sense of Community that fosters a learning climate. As participants, including the facilitator, share comments with one another, it makes everyone feel a part of the learning environment.
As the course progresses, I think the facilitator needs to step back and let the participants sustain the discussions in the forums and continue accomplishing the goals of the course. However, it is a good idea for participants to check in with their facilitator occasionally via email, chat, or text to share how they are doing and ask questions if they need help. This way facilitators learn more about their participants and guide them in increasing their knowledge.
I have facilitated 3 online classes with teachers all over the world, because our school system has schools all over. Based on post-course feedback and participant comments, my suggestions are:
I hope these ideas are helpful.
Hi Karen,
Thanks for your well-written, comprehensive list of tips for online facilitators. I agree with you that personalized feedback is much better for participants than generic comments.
Here's my list of weekly tasks that I follow in teaching online courses. I am now facilitating my 6th course for 2011-2012. I really enjoy the interaction with the students, especially in the discussion forums.
Lynne, you've shared a wealth of good ideas for working with online courses! Thanks for giving me some new things about which to think before fall courses get underway! Karen
Hi John-
I have been doing more and more online learning through webinars, online courses and TLCs. I recently was looking for some good online strategies for activating learning and even getting to know the participants. I found several really interesting ways for particpants to introduce themselves online and/or engage their minds in the learning. Let me know if you have tried any of these:-)
Doppel Me is a free, quick and easy to use tool that lets you to create an Avatar, you can have participants create one and upload it as part of their introduction.
Pinterest is a social, visual bookmarking site where participants can create a personalized board that highlights things about them for intro activity.
Since we last met, my life has been like.... (choose a song, movie or book title) because....
This is a nice re-entry activity and particpants can upload a song or link to it or a movie or book.
These are just a few that have worked well for me and it also exposes participants to some new cool tools.
Check out this free guide to online learning. Three prominent educators – Carol Keenan, Tres Tyvand, and Keith Wilson – share 25 best practices learned from years of experience with implementing and growing successful online education.
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Hi John, That is exciting you are doing online teaching. I have been teaching online for 7 years now and it has been a blessing since I can take my work where ever I go. Everyone provided some wonderful tips. I thought I would share some tips that help me manage my time and not let the course take over my life....
Good luck and enjoy! Tammy
All of these Online tips are very comprehensive and helpful. I especially appreciate Tammy capturing the essence of where we can cut our time commitment and still be effective. Nice job, Tammy. I am a novice in Online instruction and am picking up as many tips as I can for writing the curriculum, delivering the material, and still being realistic for student expectations. I agree with Christen in that communicating the intended expectations ahead of the course is extremely important. I actually announced in my class the first face-to-face day that if the format didn't fit their learning styles, they might need to drop and enroll in a face-to-face. Out of about 110, only four walked out. WHEW!!!! Would not have been good if there had been mass exodus.
My latest challenge is to do some combining with Online teaching and face-to-face in my 3 Hybrid classes this semester. The jury is still out as to the effectiveness, but I can attest to the fact that designing such a course is really a challenge.
I think that you have the best of both worlds, being able to have a face-to-face
relationship and online is a perfect scenario, and what I think might be in our
future of hybrid facilitation.
My addition to our list of "tips" is using an Avatar, from Voki.com to set the stage for information on
each weekly lesson.
Everyone has given such great responses to assist in online learning, but one of my
most rewarding experiences with online facilitation is meeting up with my online students while traveling, getting together at ISTE, or just when on the road while working for the Verizon Foundation. This experience was like meeting an old acquaintance that concluded the circle of our friendship. This completion leads to more involvement by the students with future classes.
Here's a good article with suggestions to improve your online teaching--6 Ways to Be a Better Online Teacher -- Campus Technology.
After reading the article, which of these tips is the most important to being a better online teacher? Do you have additional suggestions to add to this list?


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In this InformationWeek debate, Informatica CTO James Markarian shares his views on how ETL is changing, but will live on.
Adam Wilson, Informatica senior vice president and general manager for ILM, talks about how data archiving can help offset the hidden costs of Hadoop.
Todd Goldman, GM of Enterprise Data Integration, blogs on his thoughts on Gartner's view about the challenges of Hadoop for data integration.
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